Mom On Purpose With Natalie Bacon

So often we end up beating ourselves up all day, so at the end of the day, we're pleasure-deprived. 

It sounds like, "I had such a hard day so I'm having some wine." While this seems so innocent, it ends up reinforcing escaping our lives through false pleasures that have a net negative consequence. 

Instead, I invite you to try something different: finding natural pleasures throughout your day.  In this episode, you'll learn what "natural pleasures" are and how to find pleasure every day, so you enjoy your everyday life. 

Learn more at: https://nataliebacon.com/finding-pleasure-podcast/

A HUGE mistake people make is being "confused" about how to achieve their goals.

This is just what your brain does. It freaks out when you want to do something new.

The best way to solve this confusion is to set up a system where you track your results.

It sounds kind of boring at first, but it's the glue that holds each step together on your way to success.

When you track your goal progress, you're clear about what's working and what's not. When you don't, you waste so.much.time.

In this episode, I show you exactly how to track your progress so you can achieve your most impossible goals.

Learn more at: https://nataliebacon.com/tracking-your-goal-progress-podcast/

When it comes to doing things for ourselves, we rarely push through when we’re met with discomfort. We make the discomfort mean stop, slow down, or quit, instead of using discipline and deliberate discomfort to get us to our goals.

When you go after a goal, like designing your dream life, it means you’re creating something new and different. Naturally, you’re going to be scared, there will be failure and rejection and discomfort.

It’s important to not make slowing down or having obstacles mean something and just let it be the discomfort that is inevitably going to happen when there is growth involved. Assign meaning to whatever you want, but do it to your advantage instead of your disadvantage. 

This means you stop making obstacles, failures, and discomfort of pursuing your goals mean you’re out of alignment and something has gone wrong.

If you get really good at experiencing negative emotion, without being afraid of it, you won’t avoid, resist, or react to it.

You’ll learn to plan for deliberate discomfort and welcome growth with open arms. 

Learn more at: https://nataliebacon.com/deliberate-discomfort-podcast/

Do you ever think about what you want most in life... if you believed anything was possible?

When I ask people what they really want, they tell me. But it's followed by, "I don't know how to [fill-in-the-blank]."

I tell them I have good news.

I say, "How is none of your business."

I teach them how to believe without knowing how to do the thing they want to do.

Believe. Then take one action. 

One step—the next step—is enough.

Want to lose weight? Have better relationships? Make more money? Have a more fulfilling career? You can.

You don't have to know how to do it today.

In this episode, I'll show you exactly how to do this in your life for whatever it is you want most. 

Learn more at: https://nataliebacon.com/when-you-don't-know-how-podcast/

When everything is uncertain around you, it can create feelings of worry, anxiety, and helplessness.

It could be a job loss, it could be coronavirus, it could be your kids not getting into the school you want, or it could be your spouse having an affair.

The uncertainty in the world is one thing we can count on at different points in our lives.

What you can control is how you cope.

In this episode, I give you a different way to approach uncertainty starting with the root cause of where it comes from: your brain.

When you learn where uncertainty comes from, you can start to understand it and process it.

This provides relief unlike anything else.

Learn more at: https://nataliebacon.com/uncertainty-podcast/